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Battlefield 4 and Assassin's Creed 4 get very good reviews in general; lots of people smell rats after previous versions but the footage of the latter in particular does seem good. Slightly odd how much fuss about the gap between the PS3 and PS4 there is too, like it was a deal breaker. Essentially, the PS4 version runs a couple of frames smoother and has nicer lens flare, which as we all know is what makes purchasing a £400 console a massive priority (admittedly it's always par for the course until a year or two in).

I played some more Mirror's Edge and got to a bit so FUCKING FRUSTRATING I nearly smashed my house up in anger. I know what I have to do but seem totally incapable of doing it. Bastard red bar swinging on to ceiling gantry whilst machine cunting gunning dicks shoot me...

SUB-THREAD: DLC - who gives a shit? Can see little reason to ever want to download any myself unless it was a 4 hour campaign that added to the single player mode but people seem to love it - do you? And does it have a future?

Has anyone played it? I'm very tempted to pick that and The Wolf Among Us in this Halloween sale thingy.
Anything else in that sale that is a must pick-up? (Note: I have Vampire The Masquerade because that's usually one people recommend and so do I if you don't have it already!)

so frame rate massively helps the experience but this can't be conveyed in video as they tend to be locked down at 24 - 30fps.

Also having played BF 3 on Xbox 360 and PC I can tell you that the game not only looks waaaaaay better (this is the same engine so argument is valid and will ring true to PS 4 to PS 3 comparison) but it also felt way more responsive due to the higher frame rate. But as I said this is something that isn't easily conveyed on video as you aren't playing it, compression artifacts and being locked at 30fps.

Got Brothers on sale, so far so fantastic... also got a 2 pack of Foul Play for £5 due to being able to stack the steam sale with some coupons I had + trading card money :D Going to give that a whirl with a friend today.

State of Decay is a lot better than I thought it would be and 'Sir, You're Being Hunted' has one of the best atmospheres of any survival game I've ever played and it's still not even finished! I suck at it though and the Scarecrow slenderman thing totally freaked me out, but I love it!

the is no reason to get a new console at the moment, especially as they appear to be disappointing in terms of performance with the launch games at least.... especially the XBox One where games are running at lower res than expected and terrible aliasing issues. I'd wait until next year and if you have a PC with a gaminh graphics card only 2 - 3 years old in it you're probably going to be pushing more polygons then either new console until devs learn how to get the most out of the machines.

I kinda got bored after putting in hours and hours. I think that game really suffers from being single player.

I was a crazy battlefield player, put in more time than I'd like to admit. I didn't mind framerates on the XBOX360. I believe that the next gen will really bring something to it though. BF4 from what I've played has brought some great mechanics into play. I've only played it once though, went I was hammered on port.

Just want to warn people. It's an awful awful game, I'm actually getting angry thinking about it right now. I want to snap this disc into tiny pieces. Everything about it is shit, the level design is especially shit, the way the game plays, that's shit. The "story" and voice acting (yeah I know that's not why you play a Sonic game), but since they've put it in there it deserves comment: it's shit. The graphics are lovely, but that can't save a turd like this. This is is coming from someone that thought Generations was a flawed masterpiece and a massive return to form.

I played it on Sunday to check it was actually good after my disappoint with Lost World. I wanted to make sure I hadn't imagined a good 3d sonic game! Get it cheap if you've not played it, it's full of nostalgia too. One thing I would say though is that it felt kind of blurry after playing the new one, but it shouldn't stop you enjoying it.

feels really off in a game where you and the enemies' general resistance to stuff is otherwise reasonably portrayed. Plus it simply isn't fun at all. Eidos are talking about producing DEs and I really hope they take on board how those fights stick out like a sore dick.

they kind of tried to redeem it with the DLC, which had a sort of boss fight but in a more Deus Ex-like style (i.e. it was alright).

Quite strangely, the boss fights were outsourced to a different company, which explains a few things. If you think the first boss is annoying, then wait till you hear about the one that *really* takes the piss.

Getting through Dead Rising 2 and as with the first it's sort of constantly annoying that you're on deadline and can't just enjoy the sandbox zombie fun. And the save system has lead to some major ragefits. Still! Fun, and it was free. Musn't grumble.

(if you can help its the bit where you need to teleport from the left side to the right side to push a button that allows you to turn off the first red light so you can swap to the first platform and put a duplicate on the 2nd platform so you can make it to the top on the right hand side and swap to the top on the left... then the is a platform with a blue light with a shard on it... no idea how to get up there.)

1. Put a clone the other side of the little gap at the bottom and swap to it.
2. Put a clone on the pressure pad.
3. Switch back to the original guy.
4. Put a clone on the platform above and to the left of him and swap to it.
5. Put a clone on the platform to the right of the upper red light.
6. Walk everyone to the right until you're just left with the guy you're controlling back in the position per your screenshot and a clone to the left of the little gap at the top.
7. Repeat 1.
8. Put a clone on the platform at the right-hand side of the screen and swap to it.
9. Walk everyone to the right to kill the clone you created in 7.
10. Put a clone on the top-right platform and swap to it.
11. Swap to the clone you created in 5.
12. Put a clone on the ledge to the right of the upper blue light and swap to it.
13. Put a clone on the orb and swap to it.

so I've been playing that, I never tried the PC version. It's better than I expected, the balance seems good and there's no real need for spending any money.

I've also been playing starmade (http://star-made.org/), it's essentially minecraft in space, so instead of building a house to live in, you build a spaceship for fighting pirates in, and a spacestation to chill in and you go off mining planets with a big laser. You can build huge ass voxel spaceships and walk around in them, it's good give it a try.

Half going for an all-fruit 10 day speed run. Probably won't quite pull it off, as at least 2 areas I'm struggling to see how I could possibly get to and kill the boss in the one day, as well as collecting enough fruit to make it feasible to clear the area when I return with blue pikmin. Plus clearing the cavern in the final area and leaving enough time to beat the final boss in one day seems impossible.

I'm giving it a crack, anyway, but I'm not even thinking about trying it with no pikmin deaths. I've already lost 11 pikmin across the course the first three days.